FILTRATE // Behind The Scenes

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The project took over two years to complete, with 43 days of guerilla shooting in the active metro system of Montreal, six months of costume building, and over a year of post production. The film was captured entirely on iPhone 7 using only a wheelchair, a monopod, and a handheld stabilizer. What began as just a short film evolved into something much larger, combining guerrilla filmmaking, performance art, original costume, still photography, and urban exploration.

While living in Montreal, director Mishka Kornai, costume designer Odette Mattha, and cinematographer Luke Orlando chose the city’s metro system as the central inspiration for a collaborative project. Each station, designed by a different architect, possesses its own distinct aesthetic, forming a network that is simultaneously interconnected and starkly differentiated like the internet today. Enlisting a team of local dancers, filmmakers, and artists, they created a surreal post-human future and the imaginative beings who populate it.